Patriots Making Major Change Following Embarrassing Survey

The Patriots are making a major change, which might help lessen the “cheap” allegations being thrown around One Patriot Place.

New England on Wednesday announced plans to construct a brand-new, stand-alone training facility for the exclusive use of the team. It’ll be a three-level structure that will more than double the square footage of the team’s current footprint located inside Gillette Stadium, with day-to-day activities primarily shifting in and around the new center.

It’s scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2026.

“The whole project is designed around the players and the player experience,” Kraft Sports and Entertainment chief operating officer Jim Nolan said in the statement. “As teams and team operations have grown, it was time for us to design a larger facility exclusively for the operation of the football team. The main floor is designed for where the players will work out, train, rehab, relax, and eat. The top floor is designed for where players and coaches will watch game film, strategize and meet.”

The Patriots received a rather brutal grade in the latest NFLPA “Player Team Report Card” survey, which ranked the organization 29th out of 32 NFL teams with two categories resulting in “F” and “F-” grades. New England’s weight room, which will now shift to the new facility, ranked dead last.

It’s safe to say those grades had something to do with the new digs.

The Patriots’ new facility will feature a nutrition center, a player lounge, an open-space locker room, an expanded weight room that will open directly onto three redesigned practice fields, new training rooms with a significant expansion of “hydro” capabilities — which include hot tubs, cold plunge tubs, a pool and an underwater treadmill — and all football administration offices and meeting rooms, as well as “cutting-edge” virtual reality rooms.

New England’s personnel offices will include a conference room that features new technologies for hosting annual draft operations — which have become extremely prevalent in recent years — and a new media workroom.

It’s pretty cool. You can check out the full announcement and renders here.